Botanicals II
The Botanicals series were conceived and photographed in the spring of 2020, at the outset of the Covid-19 quarantine. I realized that I was potentially going to be working from home for some time, so I started going to New York’s flower district on a weekly basis and buying as many flowers as I could carry. I started photographing the flowers at full blossom or just as they began to die. As the days and then weeks wore on, however, I continued to watch the flowers and was by struck their persistent beauty. Capturing their various states of decay soon became my focus.